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' WITNESSLS- UNITED STATES .Eatented Amy 18, 1905.

PATENT OFFIGE.

HUGH E. SHEDD, ()F RED ING, MINNESOTA.

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To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HUGH E. 'SHEDD, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at Red Wing, in the county of Goodhue and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Calendars; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same,reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The present invention has reference tothat class of calendars either in tablet form or in which the leaflets are loose and held together at their upper ends by suitable means which will admit of each leaflet being torn off orlowing, the numerals indicating the days that have passed and the day following being of diflerent color or design, so as to distinguish them from each other.

The invention consists in a calendar substantially as shown in the drawings and hereinafter described.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a front elevation of a calendar embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a similar view showing several of the leaflets removed up to the twenty-first day of the month; Fig. 3, a detail view in perspective of one of the leaflets; Fig.4, a detail view in perspective of the lower end of a yearly calendar, the last one of each series of leaflets of a month being provided with a tab with a distinguishing-mark thereon to indicate the month of the year.

In the accompanying d rawings,A represents the back of the calendar, which may be of any suitable material of suflicient stiffness or rigidity, and the leaflets B are held thereto by suitable fastenings a, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings. The back and means of fastening or holding the leaflets together may be changed or modified as found most preferable withoutin any manner departing from the essential feature of the invention, this being left to the discretion of the manufacturer. The leaflets B have the names of the days of the week thereon and also the month and the numeral representing the year, and in the present instance I have shown the calendar for the month of February, 1905, the twentyeight days being represented by numerals. Each leaflet, with the exception of the flrst, has a numeral or numerals indicating the days that have passed and a numeral indicating the current day, the days that have passed being represented by the open-line numerals 7) and the current day being represented by solidblack numerals 0, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings. In order to distinguish the days passed and the current day on each one of the leaflets, it is necessary to have the numerals of different designs or styles or of different colors, as found most preferable, and to represent one of many styles of numerals that may be used. The numerals are represented by open-line numerals and solid-black numerals or any distinguishing form or shape or color of numerals may be substituted as found best adapted to the purpose. The leaflets Bare cut so as to 'display only the numerals or dates of the days passed and in addition thereto the numeral of the current day only.

In Fig. 1 of the drawings is shown a com plete calendar for the month of February, having twenty-eight days, and consequent] y twenty-eight leaflets corresponding to the number of days in the month, and after the first day of the month has passed the leaflet bearing the numeral 1 is removed to expose the leaflet under it, whichleaflet is shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings. It will now be seen that the first day of February having already passed that day will be represented on the leaflet as of a different form, style, or color from that of the second day of the month, which has notas yet passed, and so on throughout the series of leaflets. When the twentieth day of February has passed, the leaflet on which the last numeral is 20 is removed, thus exposing to view the leafletimmediately under it, which leaflet is shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, and the days that have passed from the first to the twentieth, inclusive, are shown on the leaflet in adifferentcolor or design from that of the twenty-first of the month, thus designating the present day from the days that have gone before. The numerals indicating the Sundays of the month may be of the same color or design as the numerals representing the days that have passed, any color or design being used as found most preferable.

In Fig. 4 of the drawings is shown a portion of a calendar 0 for the entire year and does not difi er from the leaflets hereinbefore described with the exception that the last one of each series of leaflets of a month is provided with a tab d, having a distinguishing-mark thereon to designate the month, preferably an abbreviation of the month, as shown, th ereby enabling the several leaflets comprising a monthv to be lifted up out of the way when desired.

Having now fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A calendar comprising a plurality of leaflets, each leaflet having thereon suitable numerals indicating the days that have passed and a numeral indicating the current day only, each class of numerals being of different color or design to distinguish them from each other, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A calendar comprising a plurality of leaflets, each leaflet having thereon suitable numerals indicating the days that have passed and a numeral indicating the current day only, the last one of the series of leaflets of each month having a tab with distinguishing-mark to designate the month, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HUGH E. SHEDD.

Witnesses:

N. A. HAUENSTEEN, JNo. A. GRoss. 

